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Using Lucid Dreaming to Cultivate Your Intuition
Dreams — especially lucid dreams, where you know you’re dreaming — can be fertile ground for experiencing psi, including tapping into the future and connecting telepathically with loved ones, here or on the other side. On April 14, I’ll be hosting an online conversation with Robert Waggoner, a renowned expert on lucid dreaming, and you’re…
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Is Life a Dream?
Today’s post on my Psychology Today blog, “Mysteries of Consciousness,” explores a question that has bothered skeptical philosophers for centuries, if not millenia: How do we know that life is not just a dream? I argue that this is not just an idle question and that the answer to it stands to have important empirical…
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Can a Heart Transplant Change Your Identity?
When I was in graduate school for philosophy, I took a class with Derek Parfit who was known for his work on the relationship between personal identity and ethics. One of the thought experiments he asked us to consider (taken from his book Reasons and Persons) involved our brain’s being transplanted into two separate bodies–half of…
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Chasing Your Dream
My last post talked about longings that we can’t quite explain and thus often disregard as irrational and unimportant. This post is about an excellent tool to help us recover those crucial, disregarded desires: a 30-day guided journal called Chasing Your Dream. It so happens that one of the dreams that runs in my family is the dream…
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Sharon Hewitt Rawlette, PhD 